Sentence examples for index weighting from inspiring English sources

To allow comparison among herds containing multiple species, we converted the three main livestock species - cattle, goats, and sheep - into Tropical Livestock Units (TLUs), an index weighting each species by productive capacity.

Inter- and intra-observer agreement was calculated with the kappa index, weighting with quadratic weights for ordinal categories.

GP: General practitioner; HCNI Healthh care needs index, an official Norwegian national governmental index weighting each municipality's needs for specialist health care services; HF: Helseforetak, hospital trust.

This is a national governmental index weighting each municipality's needs for specialist health care services based on age structure, indicators of morbidity, education level and other living conditions.

Nevertheless, Muir (2005) demonstrated that even with biased estimates, it was possible to increase body weight in quail at 6 weeks of age using an optimal index weighting direct and indirect effects according to their contribution to the group mean.

An additive scale is also most commonly used for the WOMAC, however other weighting and aggregation methods were proposed (i.e. normalisation, pooled index, weighting by relative importance, response criteria) [ 48].

Our Sinodependency Index weights American multinationals by their China revenues.

If a share rises in price, its index weight increases.

The entropy method is used to determine index weight.

Second, the index weights and index scores are established via the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and expert scoring method, respectively.

Because the Government, to compute the index, weights the first group of indicators more heavily than the second, the index, over all, pointed to a crisp expansion.